Definition of chromatic in English:

chromatic

adjective krəˈmatɪkkroʊˈmædɪk

1Music
Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
〔乐〕半音阶的
Example sentencesExamples
- The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
- Though you hardly notice it, the melody, beginning with its hook, is highly chromatic, and the harmony constantly mixes the major and minor modes in a way surprisingly reminiscent of Schumann or Brahms.
- Although the piece is indebted to lush, late - 19 th-century chromatic harmony, there's something classical about the ambience of Fauré's soundworld.
- Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated.
- When one works in a chromatic, rather than diatonic, idiom to begin with, it's not unusual to want to work with basic materials which incorporate all twelve tones.
1. 1.1 (of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones.
  （音阶）升半音的；降半音的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Below is the chromatic scale, both ascending and descending.
  Both of these pitch standards define what are called ‘equal tempered chromatic scales.’
  I tried to envisage changing the traditional pentatonic scale to a 12-tone chromatic scale.
  Inconveniently for composers, birds don't limit themselves to the chromatic scale, or to the confines of a straightforward metrical scheme.
  When the holes are placed at proportioned intervals, a simple chromatic scale can be produced.
2. 1.2 (of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale.
  （乐器）可演奏全部半音阶乐音的
  the master of the chromatic harmonica
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps the most solemn instrument is a full set of 65 chromatic bronze bells that date back 2,500 years.
  The record was by a group that has since faded into obscurity, The Harmonicats, three Chicagoans who played chromatic harmonicas.
  18th-century basset horns had two basset keys, for D and C, but by the end of the century the instrument was fully chromatic.
  The nineteenth century added some mechanics to the beast to allow it some ability to play sharps and flats and to modulate, but it's still not a chromatic instrument, and since at least Wagner, music sings mainly chromatically.
  And despite his omnipotence, Hunter doesn't steal the show from his group, which includes another minor miracle in chromatic harmonica player Gregoire Maret.
2Relating to or produced by colour.
（与）色彩（有关）的；由色彩产生的
Example sentencesExamples
- If the reduction of chromatic processing is due to postreceptoral colour mechanisms, we should expect age-related deficits in this task.
- On the other side his use of colour is very far from the traditional concept of harmony: the chromatic juxtapositions are often daring, or they are previously decided following laws fixed by the artist.
- Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale.
- Campbell and company received the honour for their article ‘Multifocal lenses compensate for chromatic defocus in vertebrate eyes,’ which was first published in 1999.
- In his essay ‘How Culture Conditions the Colours We See,’ Umberto Eco claims that chromatic perception is determined by language.
- In the experiments described in the last two sections, we purposely made achromatic intensity unreliable, to prove that moths used the chromatic aspect of colour.
- T males have several salient visual features compared with NT males that might be used, including larger physical size, brighter body coloration, and prominent chromatic body patterns.
- But when chromatic lights or colouring substances are mixed the eye sees only one colour and does not analyse out the components.
- In the hands of the Latin American magical realist, Gauguin's story has been transmuted into a lush story of frenzy, in vivid chromatic colours.
- This fusion occurs only when the chromatic dots are too small to be resolved by the eye, or when they are viewed at sufficient distance.
- These creations are marked by a precious detail, are rich in chromatic scale, accented by embroidery, hand-painted floral designs, and unique beaded fabrics reminiscent of Drecoll's.
- Stems and leaves of green set off the dreamy chromatic harmony.
- Female color patches, on the other hand, show lower chromatic and brightness contrast against the natural litter.
- Contrasts in scale and strategic placement within the layout heighten the chromatic offsets of color and black-and-white.
- Within the realm of the image, the two ends of the chromatic scale stand out via the characters' insistence on evoking black and white animals, especially the zebra.
- Whitney also wrote on graph theory, in particular the colouring of graphs and chromatic polynomials.
- The rainbows, often referred to as ‘the glory’, are simply the chromatic fringes developed by diffraction at the margin of the shadow, but it's a startling spectacle.
- They are chromatic rays within a certain section of the spectrum.
- Mark Mussari explores the cultural significance of colour through a discussion of Umberto Eco's work on chromatic perception and visuality.
- The contrast of the warm glow of fruit with the intense chromatic greys on the canvas is simple, yet highly effective.

Derivatives

chromatically

adverb

It is useful to consider chord/scale relationships when playing chromatically, so that you can deliberately choose a scale that will increase tension, and then resolve it by returning to an expected scale.
Example sentencesExamples
- At the start a male dancer encircles an orange-yellow clad female dancer, wrapping her waist with a black ribbon, over broken chord patterns in chromatically descending sequences.
- Black Holes, Bohemians, Colonials, and Boudoirs is an extravagance of chromatically complex cellular forms arrayed in an irregular grid on a 72-by - 96-inch rectangle of hard black acrylic.
- All the varieties of blackness chromatically echo modern women's lifestyles, the pursuit of progress and breakthrough.
- ‘In the Middle of the Night, Something or Someone Is Under the Bed and I Decide to Look’ is a wonderfully descriptive piece that consists of chromatically rising rhythmic effects within one long crescendo and accelerando.

chromaticism

nounkrəˈmatɪsɪz(ə)m

A visit to North Africa inspired his interest in Islamic culture, which surfaces in the exotic chromaticism of the Hafiz and Muezzin sets.
Example sentencesExamples
- Although Park's palette turned toward an ebullient chromaticism in subsequent years, a carving approach to paint handling remained consistent in his work until health considerations forced him to give up oils in 1959.
- Instead, he found ways to push boundaries from within a tonal universe, stacking chords on top of one another, stretching chromaticism to its outer limits and swaddling his expressionist musical dramas in intoxicating swirls of color.
- In the opening bars of ‘O liberty’, for example, the added clarinet and bassoon seem to clutter the music with extraneous chromaticism, contradicting what is suggested by the movement of the bass.
- However, Campbell too performed some wonderful jazz work, illustrating some of the challenging chromaticism and irregular syncopation with which jazz music is synonymous.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French chromatique or Latin chromaticus, from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- 'colour, chromatic scale'.

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic

Definition of chromatic in US English:

chromatic

adjectivekroʊˈmædɪkkrōˈmadik

1Music
Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
〔乐〕半音阶的
Example sentencesExamples
- Though you hardly notice it, the melody, beginning with its hook, is highly chromatic, and the harmony constantly mixes the major and minor modes in a way surprisingly reminiscent of Schumann or Brahms.
- The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
- Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated.
- When one works in a chromatic, rather than diatonic, idiom to begin with, it's not unusual to want to work with basic materials which incorporate all twelve tones.
- Although the piece is indebted to lush, late - 19 th-century chromatic harmony, there's something classical about the ambience of Fauré's soundworld.
1. 1.1 (of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones.
  （音阶）升半音的；降半音的
  Example sentencesExamples
  I tried to envisage changing the traditional pentatonic scale to a 12-tone chromatic scale.
  Both of these pitch standards define what are called ‘equal tempered chromatic scales.’
  Below is the chromatic scale, both ascending and descending.
  Inconveniently for composers, birds don't limit themselves to the chromatic scale, or to the confines of a straightforward metrical scheme.
  When the holes are placed at proportioned intervals, a simple chromatic scale can be produced.
2. 1.2 (of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale.
  （乐器）可演奏全部半音阶乐音的
  the master of the chromatic harmonica
  Example sentencesExamples
  And despite his omnipotence, Hunter doesn't steal the show from his group, which includes another minor miracle in chromatic harmonica player Gregoire Maret.
  18th-century basset horns had two basset keys, for D and C, but by the end of the century the instrument was fully chromatic.
  The record was by a group that has since faded into obscurity, The Harmonicats, three Chicagoans who played chromatic harmonicas.
  Perhaps the most solemn instrument is a full set of 65 chromatic bronze bells that date back 2,500 years.
  The nineteenth century added some mechanics to the beast to allow it some ability to play sharps and flats and to modulate, but it's still not a chromatic instrument, and since at least Wagner, music sings mainly chromatically.
2Relating to or produced by color.
（与）色彩（有关）的；由色彩产生的
Example sentencesExamples
- Within the realm of the image, the two ends of the chromatic scale stand out via the characters' insistence on evoking black and white animals, especially the zebra.
- Mark Mussari explores the cultural significance of colour through a discussion of Umberto Eco's work on chromatic perception and visuality.
- These creations are marked by a precious detail, are rich in chromatic scale, accented by embroidery, hand-painted floral designs, and unique beaded fabrics reminiscent of Drecoll's.
- If the reduction of chromatic processing is due to postreceptoral colour mechanisms, we should expect age-related deficits in this task.
- The rainbows, often referred to as ‘the glory’, are simply the chromatic fringes developed by diffraction at the margin of the shadow, but it's a startling spectacle.
- In the hands of the Latin American magical realist, Gauguin's story has been transmuted into a lush story of frenzy, in vivid chromatic colours.
- This fusion occurs only when the chromatic dots are too small to be resolved by the eye, or when they are viewed at sufficient distance.
- T males have several salient visual features compared with NT males that might be used, including larger physical size, brighter body coloration, and prominent chromatic body patterns.
- Campbell and company received the honour for their article ‘Multifocal lenses compensate for chromatic defocus in vertebrate eyes,’ which was first published in 1999.
- Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale.
- They are chromatic rays within a certain section of the spectrum.
- The contrast of the warm glow of fruit with the intense chromatic greys on the canvas is simple, yet highly effective.
- Stems and leaves of green set off the dreamy chromatic harmony.
- Female color patches, on the other hand, show lower chromatic and brightness contrast against the natural litter.
- Whitney also wrote on graph theory, in particular the colouring of graphs and chromatic polynomials.
- In the experiments described in the last two sections, we purposely made achromatic intensity unreliable, to prove that moths used the chromatic aspect of colour.
- But when chromatic lights or colouring substances are mixed the eye sees only one colour and does not analyse out the components.
- On the other side his use of colour is very far from the traditional concept of harmony: the chromatic juxtapositions are often daring, or they are previously decided following laws fixed by the artist.
- Contrasts in scale and strategic placement within the layout heighten the chromatic offsets of color and black-and-white.
- In his essay ‘How Culture Conditions the Colours We See,’ Umberto Eco claims that chromatic perception is determined by language.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French chromatique or Latin chromaticus, from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- ‘color, chromatic scale’.

词汇	chromatic
释义	Definition of chromatic in English: chromatic adjective krəˈmatɪkkroʊˈmædɪk 1Music Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written. 〔乐〕半音阶的 Example sentencesExamples The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters. Though you hardly notice it, the melody, beginning with its hook, is highly chromatic, and the harmony constantly mixes the major and minor modes in a way surprisingly reminiscent of Schumann or Brahms. Although the piece is indebted to lush, late - 19 th-century chromatic harmony, there's something classical about the ambience of Fauré's soundworld. Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated. When one works in a chromatic, rather than diatonic, idiom to begin with, it's not unusual to want to work with basic materials which incorporate all twelve tones. 1.1 (of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones. （音阶）升半音的；降半音的 Example sentencesExamples Below is the chromatic scale, both ascending and descending. Both of these pitch standards define what are called ‘equal tempered chromatic scales.’ I tried to envisage changing the traditional pentatonic scale to a 12-tone chromatic scale. Inconveniently for composers, birds don't limit themselves to the chromatic scale, or to the confines of a straightforward metrical scheme. When the holes are placed at proportioned intervals, a simple chromatic scale can be produced. 1.2 (of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale. （乐器）可演奏全部半音阶乐音的 the master of the chromatic harmonica Example sentencesExamples Perhaps the most solemn instrument is a full set of 65 chromatic bronze bells that date back 2,500 years. The record was by a group that has since faded into obscurity, The Harmonicats, three Chicagoans who played chromatic harmonicas. 18th-century basset horns had two basset keys, for D and C, but by the end of the century the instrument was fully chromatic. The nineteenth century added some mechanics to the beast to allow it some ability to play sharps and flats and to modulate, but it's still not a chromatic instrument, and since at least Wagner, music sings mainly chromatically. And despite his omnipotence, Hunter doesn't steal the show from his group, which includes another minor miracle in chromatic harmonica player Gregoire Maret. 2Relating to or produced by colour. （与）色彩（有关）的；由色彩产生的 Example sentencesExamples If the reduction of chromatic processing is due to postreceptoral colour mechanisms, we should expect age-related deficits in this task. On the other side his use of colour is very far from the traditional concept of harmony: the chromatic juxtapositions are often daring, or they are previously decided following laws fixed by the artist. Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale. Campbell and company received the honour for their article ‘Multifocal lenses compensate for chromatic defocus in vertebrate eyes,’ which was first published in 1999. In his essay ‘How Culture Conditions the Colours We See,’ Umberto Eco claims that chromatic perception is determined by language. In the experiments described in the last two sections, we purposely made achromatic intensity unreliable, to prove that moths used the chromatic aspect of colour. T males have several salient visual features compared with NT males that might be used, including larger physical size, brighter body coloration, and prominent chromatic body patterns. But when chromatic lights or colouring substances are mixed the eye sees only one colour and does not analyse out the components. In the hands of the Latin American magical realist, Gauguin's story has been transmuted into a lush story of frenzy, in vivid chromatic colours. This fusion occurs only when the chromatic dots are too small to be resolved by the eye, or when they are viewed at sufficient distance. These creations are marked by a precious detail, are rich in chromatic scale, accented by embroidery, hand-painted floral designs, and unique beaded fabrics reminiscent of Drecoll's. Stems and leaves of green set off the dreamy chromatic harmony. Female color patches, on the other hand, show lower chromatic and brightness contrast against the natural litter. Contrasts in scale and strategic placement within the layout heighten the chromatic offsets of color and black-and-white. Within the realm of the image, the two ends of the chromatic scale stand out via the characters' insistence on evoking black and white animals, especially the zebra. Whitney also wrote on graph theory, in particular the colouring of graphs and chromatic polynomials. The rainbows, often referred to as ‘the glory’, are simply the chromatic fringes developed by diffraction at the margin of the shadow, but it's a startling spectacle. They are chromatic rays within a certain section of the spectrum. Mark Mussari explores the cultural significance of colour through a discussion of Umberto Eco's work on chromatic perception and visuality. The contrast of the warm glow of fruit with the intense chromatic greys on the canvas is simple, yet highly effective. Derivatives chromatically adverb It is useful to consider chord/scale relationships when playing chromatically, so that you can deliberately choose a scale that will increase tension, and then resolve it by returning to an expected scale. Example sentencesExamples At the start a male dancer encircles an orange-yellow clad female dancer, wrapping her waist with a black ribbon, over broken chord patterns in chromatically descending sequences. Black Holes, Bohemians, Colonials, and Boudoirs is an extravagance of chromatically complex cellular forms arrayed in an irregular grid on a 72-by - 96-inch rectangle of hard black acrylic. All the varieties of blackness chromatically echo modern women's lifestyles, the pursuit of progress and breakthrough. ‘In the Middle of the Night, Something or Someone Is Under the Bed and I Decide to Look’ is a wonderfully descriptive piece that consists of chromatically rising rhythmic effects within one long crescendo and accelerando. chromaticism nounkrəˈmatɪsɪz(ə)m A visit to North Africa inspired his interest in Islamic culture, which surfaces in the exotic chromaticism of the Hafiz and Muezzin sets. Example sentencesExamples Although Park's palette turned toward an ebullient chromaticism in subsequent years, a carving approach to paint handling remained consistent in his work until health considerations forced him to give up oils in 1959. Instead, he found ways to push boundaries from within a tonal universe, stacking chords on top of one another, stretching chromaticism to its outer limits and swaddling his expressionist musical dramas in intoxicating swirls of color. In the opening bars of ‘O liberty’, for example, the added clarinet and bassoon seem to clutter the music with extraneous chromaticism, contradicting what is suggested by the movement of the bass. However, Campbell too performed some wonderful jazz work, illustrating some of the challenging chromaticism and irregular syncopation with which jazz music is synonymous. Origin Early 17th century: from French chromatique or Latin chromaticus, from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- 'colour, chromatic scale'. Rhymes achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic Definition of chromatic in US English: chromatic adjectivekroʊˈmædɪkkrōˈmadik 1Music Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written. 〔乐〕半音阶的 Example sentencesExamples Though you hardly notice it, the melody, beginning with its hook, is highly chromatic, and the harmony constantly mixes the major and minor modes in a way surprisingly reminiscent of Schumann or Brahms. The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters. Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated. When one works in a chromatic, rather than diatonic, idiom to begin with, it's not unusual to want to work with basic materials which incorporate all twelve tones. Although the piece is indebted to lush, late - 19 th-century chromatic harmony, there's something classical about the ambience of Fauré's soundworld. 1.1 (of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones. （音阶）升半音的；降半音的 Example sentencesExamples I tried to envisage changing the traditional pentatonic scale to a 12-tone chromatic scale. Both of these pitch standards define what are called ‘equal tempered chromatic scales.’ Below is the chromatic scale, both ascending and descending. Inconveniently for composers, birds don't limit themselves to the chromatic scale, or to the confines of a straightforward metrical scheme. When the holes are placed at proportioned intervals, a simple chromatic scale can be produced. 1.2 (of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale. （乐器）可演奏全部半音阶乐音的 the master of the chromatic harmonica Example sentencesExamples And despite his omnipotence, Hunter doesn't steal the show from his group, which includes another minor miracle in chromatic harmonica player Gregoire Maret. 18th-century basset horns had two basset keys, for D and C, but by the end of the century the instrument was fully chromatic. The record was by a group that has since faded into obscurity, The Harmonicats, three Chicagoans who played chromatic harmonicas. Perhaps the most solemn instrument is a full set of 65 chromatic bronze bells that date back 2,500 years. The nineteenth century added some mechanics to the beast to allow it some ability to play sharps and flats and to modulate, but it's still not a chromatic instrument, and since at least Wagner, music sings mainly chromatically. 2Relating to or produced by color. （与）色彩（有关）的；由色彩产生的 Example sentencesExamples Within the realm of the image, the two ends of the chromatic scale stand out via the characters' insistence on evoking black and white animals, especially the zebra. Mark Mussari explores the cultural significance of colour through a discussion of Umberto Eco's work on chromatic perception and visuality. These creations are marked by a precious detail, are rich in chromatic scale, accented by embroidery, hand-painted floral designs, and unique beaded fabrics reminiscent of Drecoll's. If the reduction of chromatic processing is due to postreceptoral colour mechanisms, we should expect age-related deficits in this task. The rainbows, often referred to as ‘the glory’, are simply the chromatic fringes developed by diffraction at the margin of the shadow, but it's a startling spectacle. In the hands of the Latin American magical realist, Gauguin's story has been transmuted into a lush story of frenzy, in vivid chromatic colours. This fusion occurs only when the chromatic dots are too small to be resolved by the eye, or when they are viewed at sufficient distance. T males have several salient visual features compared with NT males that might be used, including larger physical size, brighter body coloration, and prominent chromatic body patterns. Campbell and company received the honour for their article ‘Multifocal lenses compensate for chromatic defocus in vertebrate eyes,’ which was first published in 1999. Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale. They are chromatic rays within a certain section of the spectrum. The contrast of the warm glow of fruit with the intense chromatic greys on the canvas is simple, yet highly effective. Stems and leaves of green set off the dreamy chromatic harmony. Female color patches, on the other hand, show lower chromatic and brightness contrast against the natural litter. Whitney also wrote on graph theory, in particular the colouring of graphs and chromatic polynomials. In the experiments described in the last two sections, we purposely made achromatic intensity unreliable, to prove that moths used the chromatic aspect of colour. But when chromatic lights or colouring substances are mixed the eye sees only one colour and does not analyse out the components. On the other side his use of colour is very far from the traditional concept of harmony: the chromatic juxtapositions are often daring, or they are previously decided following laws fixed by the artist. Contrasts in scale and strategic placement within the layout heighten the chromatic offsets of color and black-and-white. In his essay ‘How Culture Conditions the Colours We See,’ Umberto Eco claims that chromatic perception is determined by language. Origin Early 17th century: from French chromatique or Latin chromaticus, from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- ‘color, chromatic scale’.
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